Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-20

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back. He went inside few feet, ard
taking his stand peered out on the rob.
| bers, though he could see but little Ci
their operations.
In the meantime the real business part
of the meeting was being transacted by
the committee up at the front
Those of US in the rear
didn't know the entire modus
operaudi at the time, not being allowed
to roam about to any extent, but heard
how the rascals conducted the campaign
afterward-got it from eye witnesses. II
seems that the express messenger, know
ing that his car would be the
POINT OF ATTACK,
doused his lights and with cooked pistol
/ awaited developments. The thieves, pro-
curing some heavy pieces of timber or iron
perhaps, burst in the panels of the car,
making hole dig enough to admit their
| bodies. The first one in slugged the
messenger in the head with his revolver,
and took away the keys of his safe
Then they proceeded to rake in all the
Doodle in sight. They had some queer
receptacles for the gold and silver, lot
of muzzles that are used on mischievous
mules -''morals" they call 'em in the west.
They are manufactured of grass, and one
of them will hold about as much as an
ordinary water bucket. They filled three
OF these, the messenger said, and left a
fourth one in the car. This may turn
out clew, and as clew seems always
the thing most wanted in Texas train
robberies, it may happen that this grass
built moral will be the means of bringing
the thieves to justice. hope so.
As to the money got? Oh, there's no
telling about that. 1t was said that it
was S25, 900 haul, but no one knows
except the express people, and they won't
give it away. As soon as they got the
stuff some one of them sung out stake
that
LOG OFF THE TRACK"
and In q few seconds we were moving on
again. stood on the platform al we passed
the station house and saw three of
the brigands on the steps of the build
ing, and noticed that each of them had
in his arms one Of the mule muZzles spo-
ken OF.
Aboard the train was the station agent,
who is also the operator at the place, and
Mr.. D. B. Bickle, geologist from Biz
mingham, Ala. They were the only per
sons ct the station before the train got
there, and the robbers saw to it that they
departed on it. Between that point
and Round Rock these two were
the center of an excited group, eager to
hear that part OF the progTemme which
was executed prior to the arrival of the
cars.
SIX BAD MEN.
According to BiCkle and the agent,
whose name wasn't learned, they were
alone in the latUer's office, when they
were waited on by deputation of an
even half-dozen strangers. Mcneil is
merely d nominal place. There is a
depot and the next building is farm
house, quarter Of mile distant. 1t
would be stretch of courtesy to call it
a hamlet, and indeed none of
the Williamson county rustics
that occasionally stray there, do call it
so. The country round about is broken
and brushcOveTed, very sparsely inhabi-
ted and affords every facility for the
business that night transacted. Still it
is in fifteen miles of the capital city of
the great state Of Texas, and but it is
time to revert to the strangers who called
on the two gentlemen above mentioned.
The geologist had wished for the hun
dredth time that the train would come on.
He was tired of pottering about in the
rocks of that gion and wanted to get
where he could see man occasionally.
The other, more accustomed to the lone
someness of his surroundings, listened to
the clicking of his instrument; neither
expected how soon the monotony was to
be broken. Without word of warn
ing-they don't go much on warning
the strangers entered, and discarding all
formalities of welcome, or remarks about
the weather, proceeded to conduct things
in q very high-hsnded and boisterous
fashion. The geOlogist being a
tenderfoot, thought maybe it
was the custom of the
land for men to drop in of evenings and
smash up telegraph machinery. But he
thought it was carrying things trifie far
when one of them took him to one side,
and pleyfully holding up pistol to his
face, asked him for his cash, and to be
quick about it. Thereupon tae man from
Alabama
soRROwFULLY GAVE UP $3.50,
his entire roll. The operator had no
wealth about him to be confs-
Gated, but he sighed at the
wreck of his office. The work
of course kept all news Of the concert
from the outside world till Round Rock
was reached In three minutes after
wards the train rolled in.
This was about the concise form in
which the gentlemen who were first in
by the agents told the story.
They said that their guests were just six
in number, most of them young men,
without masks, and roughly clad. Only
one had long beard, and he was the most
elderly of the lot. 1t was thought
by the trainmen that there were
at least ten men engaged in the Job, and
that the others stayed in the back ground
while the six went into the office.
OTHER INCIDENTS.
Among the other passengers aboard the
robbed train who arrived in Fort Worth
yesterday were Messrs. o. Brush snd W.
S. Drake, two leading young business
men OF Austin. From them the follow
ing items were cleaned
None of the passengers were robbed. |
The man who lost a diamond pin, subse- !
quently found ii where he had concealed |
it.
The engineer and fireman were carried !
back 10 the smoker and the car guarded. |
The mail Car was not molested. One |
of the robbers yelled out to j frightened !
passenger: "We are not after you; it's |
Jay Gould's money we want"